Husband and wife actors face each other on the musical panel game show 'Off The Beat'.
The quirky quiz show Off The Beat challenges the musical knowledge of the contestants.
50 minutes of scintillating entertainment stretched into half an hour.
The Off The Beat team captains are broadcaster Frank Hall and writer Hugh Leonard.
On this edition of the programme husband and wife actors David Kelly and Laurie Morton are on opposing teams. Hugh Leonard is joined by David Kelly and Joan McDonnell a housewife from Ennis. Frank Hall has actor Laurie Morton and production planner Terry Nealon from Lucan on his team.
The first challenge for the teams is to name the titles of a medley of five tunes. Using the initial letter of each song title, they must then identify a word.
Hugh Leonard's team must identify songs that make up a playwright's name. They successfully identify four of the songs and the playwright as Ibsen.
Frank Hall team are also challenged with identifying a playwright's name. They too are successful and identify Synge as the playwright and also identify four of the songs.
Music is provided by the Jim Doherty Trio with star vocalist Des Smyth.
This episode of 'Off The Beat' was broadcast on 16 February 1982. The presenter is Brendan Balfe.
'Off The Beat' was first broadcast on 16 March 1980.
The ingenious idea relies totally on the musical knowledge of the contestants.
The programme began life on RTÉ Radio in the summer of 1979 and was then adapted for television.
